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Interesting Article: The New Target That Enables Ransomware Hackers to Paralyze Dozens of Towns and Businesses at Once

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. On July 3, employees at Arbor Dental in Longview, Washington, noticed glitches in their computers and couldn’t view X-rays. Arbor was one…

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Can the world’s megacities survive the digital age?

Christopher H. Lim, Nanyang Technological University and Vincent Mack, Nanyang Technological University Today, megacities have become synonymous with economic growth. In both developing and developed countries, cities with populations of 10 million or more account for one-third to one-half of their gross domestic product. Many…

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Protect your privacy during turbulent times: A hacker’s guide to being cyber-safe

Timothy Summers, University of Maryland Protecting individual privacy from government intrusion is older than American democracy. In 1604, the attorney general of England, Sir Edward Coke, ruled that a man’s house is his castle. This was the official declaration that a homeowner could protect himself…

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Are US antitrust regulators giving Silicon Valley’s ‘free’ apps a free pass?

Are US antitrust regulators giving Silicon Valley’s ‘free’ apps a free pass?

John Newman, University of Memphis Judging by the political winds, Silicon Valley seems headed for a showdown with antitrust regulators. For the first time since 1988, the Democratic Party’s platform includes stronger antitrust enforcement, while leading liberals have singled out Google, Apple and Facebook for…

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Ad skipping and blocking could spur an advertising arms race

David Waller, University of Technology Sydney Much to the disappointment of advertisers and ad agencies, many people do not like advertising. Some will do anything to avoid advertisements, and increasingly they have the tools to do so. Ad-blocking apps have now expanded to podcasting, with…

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Can your Facebook friends influence your decision to buy a house?

Can your Facebook friends influence your decision to buy a house?

Theresa Kuchler, New York University; Johannes Stroebel, New York University, and Ruiqing Cao, Harvard University People interact with their family, friends and coworkers on a daily basis, both through online social networks and in real life. The effects of such social interactions on economic and…

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Microsoft sees integration opportunities in LinkedIn purchase – but will users care?

Microsoft sees integration opportunities in LinkedIn purchase – but will users care?

By: David Glance Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has explained the rationale behind the tech company’s plans to buy LinkedIn for US$26.2 billion. In a letter to staff, Nadella said he believes that access to LinkedIn customers will benefit the sales of Microsoft products and in exchange,…

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Mobile Advertising: Changing User Experience

Jan 19, 2016 • By John Kumar • Mobile advertising is about to hit a milestone with $101.37 billion going to be spent on mobile ads, predicts eMarketer, and it also predicts that 50% of all the digital ads will be spent only on mobiles…

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Advertising Your Business In A Smart And Stylish Way

Author: John David Weinstein One common thing about every business is, you need to make it popular in order to attract customers. Now, the best way of making your business or brand or product popular will be promoting about it. There are various ways of…

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Evaluating Billboard Advertising Options

Author: Truead32 The brave world of advertising is all about helping companies put their best foot forward. One calls this brave since it is not only exciting but extremely challenging too, with the number of billboards screaming for your attention seeming to increase with every passing…

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